2. What do you want from work? Make a list of five most important things.

3. What is understood by a traditional career in your culture?

4. Read the text. Translate the new words. Make a list of useful topical vocabulary:

Reports of the death of the traditional career have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the growth of outsourcing (buying in services that were previously performed by a company’s employees from outside the organization) and teleworking by freelancers working from home communicating via the Internet, most professional people still go to what is recognizably a job in a building that is recognizably an office. The average tenure, the length of time that people spend in a particular job, has remained unchanged (at about seven years) for two decades.

From the point of view of the human resources department (HRD) of a large company, managing people’s careers can still be seen in the traditional activities of selection procedures and recruitment, managing remuneration (how much people are paid) and working with department managers on performance reviews: annual or more frequent meetings with employees to tell them how well they are doing and how they may progress further on the career ladder. The HRD will also be involved with training and professional development of the company staff.

A company’s HRD may also be involved in making people redundant. Redundancies may be the result of an economic downturn with reduced demand for the company’s goods or services, but they may follow a decision by a company to de-layer (to reduce the number of management levels) and downsize. It may offer outplacement services, advice to people on how they can find another job, perhaps after some retraining.

A manager made redundant in this way may become what some people call a portfolio worker, offering their services to a number of clients. But many such managers describe themselves as consultants when in fact they would prefer to be working in a salaried job in an organization like the one they have been forced to leave.

Others may enjoy their new-found freedom and embrace the flexibility that it offers. Companies too may talk about flexibility when they use the services of freelancers in this way, rather than relying on salaried employees. Freelancers have to maintain their degree of employability by keeping up with the latest trends and skills in their profession or industry, for example by attending short courses. They may complain that working outside an organization gives them fewer opportunities to learn these new skills. For many salaried employees, on the other hand, developing one’s career in an organization is a process of give-and-take – the environment they work in allows them to keep their skills up to speed.

Notes:

1. outsourcing can be where companies stop making goods or parts for these goods and subcontract this work to other companies, which may or may not be in the same country. But, sometimes, companies are subcontracting to cheaper suppliers abroad.

2. freelancer ['friːlɑːn(t)sə] а) человек, работающий вне штата; b) свободный художник.

3. tenure ['tenjuə] - 1. a) пребывание (в должности); b) срок пребывания (в должности).

2. постоянная должность (в штате университета), бессрочный контракт; tenure of employment - срок трудового найма; срок службы; security of tenure - бессрочный контракт; academic tenure - постоянная должность; бессрочный контракт; (для профессорских должностей - зачисление в постоянный штат высшего учебного заведения после прохождения длительного испытательного срока)

Changes are coming soon in academic-tenure system. In the near future, faculty employment will no longer be strictly tenure-based. В университетскую систему пожизненных контрактов скоро придут изменения. В ближайшем будущем профессоров перестанут принимать исключительно на постоянные должности.

3) a) владение недвижимостью, землевладение; наследственное владение землёй; b) срок владения; tenure by lease - владение на правах аренды; to give / grant tenure - отдать во владение; to acquire / get / receive tenure - получить во владение;

2. предоставлять постоянную должность (в штате университета), заключать бессрочный контракт.

4. remuneration [rɪˌmjuːn(ə)'reɪʃ(ə)n] – a) вознаграждение; b) оплата, компенсация; Syn: reward, recompense, repayment; to accept remuneration – принимать компенсацию; to offer remuneration - предоставлять компенсацию;

5. performance review / appraisal - оценка результатов деятельности / труда, оценка рабочих характеристик, аттестация - (метод повышения эффективности работы персонала, заключающийся в рассмотрении показателей выполнения рабочих заданий с целью оценки производительности труда, установления обратной связи, поощрения сотрудников) Syn: performance evaluation, performance assessment.

6. outplacement (mass noun) - трудоустройство уволенных; увольнение по сокращению штатов (предполагает также попытку фирмы трудоустроить увольняемого на новом месте, хотя этим может заниматься и агентство по трудоустройству. Термин стал стандартным в американском деловом мире в начале 1970-х. В переносном смысле означает также просто сокращение штатов redundancy)

7. give-and-take - 1) тактика взаимных уступок, компромисса; Syn: compromise. 2) обмен шутками, остроумными репликами; 3) уравнение условий (соревнования);

8. employability - а) трудоспособность, способность к труду; b) возможность / способность найти работу; возможность занятости (способности, в том числе физические, навыки и знания, способствующие успешному поиску работы и трудоустройству и увеличивающие шансы потенциальных работников на рынке труда); employability skills - навыки поиска работы; graduate employability - возможности занятости выпускников

9. portfolio [ˌpɔːt'fəulɪəu] - 1) портфель, папка; 2) функции министра, компетенция министра; minister without portfolio - министр без портфеля; министр без полномочий; 3) портфолио, образцы выполненных работ; a photographer's portfolio - портфолио фотографа; 4) портфель ценных бумаг; investment portfolio / security portfolio - портфель ценных бумаг; portfolio investments - портфельные инвестиции; 5) набор, перечень; product portfolio - товарный ассортимент, номенклатура продукции

portfolio worker – a qualified specialist engaged in an employment pattern that involves a succession of short-term contracts and part-time work, rather than the more traditional long-term single job; Portfolio careers allow women to balance work with family.

5. Match a word with its definition:

tenure	buying in services that were previously performed by a company’s employees from outside the organization
remuneration	human resources department
outsourcing	a set of pieces of creative work collected by someone to display their skills, esp. to a potential employer
portfolio	Research and development
HRD	the length of time that people spend in a particular job
give-and-take	a formal assessment, typically in an interview, of the performance of an employee over a particular period
R&D	money paid for work or a service
outplacement	mutual concessions and compromises
performance review	the provision of assistance to redundant employees in finding new employment